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Friday music blogging: Best music of 2011
As is my annual tradition, I've compiled a two-CD mix of 2011's best new music. Check it out and weigh in.
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Seeing red: Where do the GOP candidates stand on urban issues?
For decades, the Republican strategy on cities has been to ignore them and hope they go away. This year appears to be no different, but the guys currently taking pot shots at each other in the presidential primary never cease to surprise.
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Energy efficiency: Still awesome, still ignored
Despite having drifted back out of the public eye, energy efficiency remains a readily available way to stimulate the economy and create jobs while reducing energy demand and climate pollution.
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Bike-a-Bee does beekeeping by bike
Jana Kinsman’s startup Bike-a-Bee will be a distributed network of beehives in the Chicago area — Kinsman will hook up local urban farms and gardens with bees, which will help pollinate the plants while also producing honey. (Greenspaces that host a beehive get a share of the honey profits.) Meanwhile, Kinsman will care for the […]
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Obama sings his support for Green causes
We guessed from his first campaign ad that President Obama was going to be vocal about clean energy this election, but we didn’t realize he was going to go full-on Green:
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It’s Penguin Awareness Day! Please be aware of these penguins
So apparently today is Penguin Awareness Day? I’d be inclined to think that any species that’s been the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary AND an Oscar-winning animated feature film wouldn’t really need an Awareness Day, but whatever, it’s not like anybody’s asking you to post some crazy crap about your bra color on Facebook. All […]
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Newt Gingrich thinks riding the subway is for fancy people
Not that this is the most ridiculous Gingrich news in the last few days or anything, but it’s pretty amusing: Evidently “metro-riding” is the Gingrich equivalent of “arugula-eating.” “Those who, you know, live in high-rise apartment buildings writing for fancy newspapers in the middle of town after they ride the metro, who don’t understand that […]
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Lexicon of Sustainability: Food sovereignty
After Hurricane Katrina, the only fresh produce within 50 miles of New Orleans came from a tiny Vietnamese refugee community in East New Orleans.
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‘Antibiotic-free’ pork has the same rate of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
We really do try to Pollan it up and do the whole “eat food, not too much, mostly plants” bit. But “mostly plants” obviously means “sometimes bacon.” And maybe the farmers’ market wasn’t open, so we bought that bacon at the store. Oh, but it was good bacon! “Raised without antibiotics” bacon! That’s something, right? […]
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A Farmville-style game that helps save wetlands
This student-created Farmville-type game benefits real wetlands conservation groups.
